01589pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002100040245006400061260000900125300001500134520106200149650002101211700002601232773002601258909001101284999001901295952010501314180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aKruyen, Peter M.  aCreativity in local government: definition and determinants  c2017  ap.825-841.  aIn current thinking about public service improvement, civil servant creativity plays an important role. Using the results of 43 semi-structured interviews, we assessed the degree to which our theoretical knowledge about creativity-based primarily on business research-matches the insights of managers in local government. Respondents considered employee creativity to be important, but-in contrast to the literature-understood creativity as the act of trying out new things to better deal with specific problems at hand instead of developing new ideas potentially applicable to a wider context. As such, respondents did not see creativity as the main precondition for innovation. In line with the literature, there is little consistency across respondents about individual- and context-level determinants of creativity. Lastly, respondents put forward several factors that have received little attention in the literature but are particularly relevant in understanding differences in work-related creativity in the context of local government. - Reproduced.  aLocal government  aGenugten, Marieke van  aPublic Administration  a116298  c116292d116292  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 95, Issue no: 3pAR116758r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR